The designation as a national park provides permanent protection to help tell the history of Texas school districts that established separate elementary...
Site in West Texas called a ‘reminder of our nation’s ‘diverse and often complex journey toward equality and justice’to segregate Mexican and Mexican American students as part of “separate but equal” education became a national park on Wednesday.
“They were told to bury their native language and leave it behind. They were threatened with punishments if they disobeyed,” said Theresa Pierno, chief executive of the National Parks Conservation Association, in aThe school was also underfunded with secondhand books and furniture at a time when segregating Hispanic schoolchildren was common across Texas.
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